Wait. What supposedly will discourage pirating? Not begin able to have the updated version?
It's not like we can buy the SFM, the only way to get it now is by random luck. Outdated version is still better than no version.

And why would Valve bother coming up with a protection if the SFM is going to be free?

Fun fact:
Some of the people that used the leaked SFM, got chosen for this beta early because they used the leaked SFM and have some experience in using it.

I suppose they just did some experimenting to see what the different options would do, it's not like any .PDF files were included in the SFM leak.

Hold on a minute... Did Valve... reward those people who found the Source Filmmaker? I guess it was a secret promotion nobody heard of until 5 years later.

Bleh, I'll let the beta end before I even get a key and hopefully the Source Filmmaker will not be marked as a game (Moved into the Tools tab, but still be visible under the "Steamapps/common" directory)

One of the dumber people in my friends list took the survey just because they could and they managed to get it. They launched it and closed it 2 minutes later and never did anything with it again. When I asked them why they took the survey, their response was "i just wanted it cause i could lol". I'm enraged :(